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HENRY STIRRING, OF BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA.

CAR FOR CONVEYING VEHICLES AND TEAMS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 30, 1907.

Application filed December 24, 1906. Serial No. 349,305.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY STIRRING, a citizen of the United States,residing at Berkeley, in the county of Alameda and State ofCalifornia,have invented new and useful Improvements in Cars forConveying Vehicles and Teams, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a car or carriage and track therefor, which isdesigned for the transportation of loaded wagons or teams.

It consists in the combination of parts and details of constructionwhich will be more fully explained by reference to the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure l is a plan view of my device. Fig. 2 is aside elevation. I

In the transportation of exceptionally heavy machinery and the like fromfactories or points where it is manufactured, to points of shipment, itis necessary to load the articles upon heavy pecially constructedtrucks, often requiring large teams to haul them, and such trucks makeexceedingly slow progress over the rough pavements of a city; theexpense of horses and men is therefore very considerable.

It is the object of my invention to provide a means for transportingsuch loads to points of shipment, with the least possible delay andexpense, and the invention is applicable at any point where a belt lineof railway exists, or where such railway may be laid.

My car consists of an exceptionally strong heavy platform A. Thisplatform may have suitable side and intermediate rails as at 2,extending upwardly above the surface and dividing it into spaces ofsufficient width to allow teams to be driven upon the platform. This maybe effected by means of an incline, as shown in dotted lines at 3, Fig.l, or the surface of the platform A may be substantially even with theplatform or surface from which the team may be driven directly upon theplatform A.

4 are the two lines of track, such as ordinarily employed for stfeet orother railways, and such lines of track may be especially constructedbetween the points where transportation is desired g eitherindependently or as spur tracks connecting with main inter-communicatinglines.

The car is mounted upon wheeled trucks 5 which travel upon one line ofrails 4, and these trucks are in such position with relation to the bodyof the car, that the greater portion of the weight will be supportedbetween these trucks.

The platform extends over the other line of track so far that anotherseries of wheels, as shown in dotted Chains or other safety devices 7are fixed at either endof the platform so that in case the animalsremain upon the platform, so as to be used at the end of the trip,accidents will be prevented. The platform may thus be loaded at thefactory, or other point, with several wagons or trucks which have beenpreviously loaded, and by means of the railway track, the whole load maybe transported to Vone or more points where one or all of the teams areto be disembarked. If the horses are also transported, it is onlynecessary to provide an inclined or level platform over which they maybe driven to leave the car, and several loads may thus be easily andcheaply transferredL to different wharves and points of shipment; therailway track enabling such anlapparatus to be rapidly transferred frompoint to point. In many cases it is only necessary to place the trucks,with their loads, upon the platform, and by providing proper means forloading and unloading the trucks therefrom, the teams may be altogetherdispensed with, and the wagons can be removed from the platform and theload subsequently transferred to cars or vessels for transportation. v

In cases where only a single line of track e'xists it will be necessaryto lay the outside rail on which the single trucks 6 travel at asufficient distance from the main line of track for the purpose ofsupporting the overhanging portion of the platform.

In cases where it may be found more advantageous, and where there aretwo parallel lines of track, fourwheeled trucks may be employed underboth sides of the platform, but in any case the disposition of weightshould be such that the principal portion will be supported in the lineof draft.

Having' thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secureby Letters Patent is- 1. In a transportation device, a platform havingaside entrance and having four wheeled trucks in line, disposed nearer toone side than the other, and adapted to travel upon a railway track,other trucks having single lines of wheels supportingr the opposite sideof the platform, a track parallel with the main track upon which thesingle line of wheels may travel and means for dividing the surface ofthe platform into independent stalls for teams.

2. A platform having transversely disposed stalls or partitionsextending from side to side, four-Wheeled trucks supporting one side ofthe platform and adapted -to travel upon an ordinary railway track,trucks having a single line of wheels supporting the opposite side ofthe platform, and rails parallel with the first named line of track uponwhich said single line of wheels may travel.

3. In a transportation device, a platform having,- a side entrance andhaving Wheeled trucks in line nearer to one side than the other, a trackupon which said Wheels travel 10 and a second Wheeled truck andsupporting line of track nearer to the opposite side of the platform.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

HENRY STIRRING.

Witnesses S. H. NoURsn, FREDERICK E. MAYNARD.

